The continually evolving road trip machine

[katsfood]

Well I think the subie is finally getting close to being the ultimate fly fishing, road trip, camp on the run vehicle for me. I've been doing a few more upgrades. New roof rack system that is completely modular with tons of outdoors and sports related attachments I can put on, crazy amounts of LED lights all the way around so I can see while driving the forest roads at night or pulling into a site at midnight, and a new rooftop tent. Small refrigerator is coming next for the back and then I think I am about done...for now















rooftop tent - just partially up





Will be testing the tent out in the Eastern Sierra this weekend...and maybe the Western for five days next weekend and the week after

Daniel

[DubL HauL]

very kewl machine dig your digs

[Jimbo Roberts]

A 62 VW Microbus was ours back in the 60's.
It was more for surfing at the coast than anything else, but it made do on fishing trips too.
The bad news was it topped out at 75 on a good day and many times on steep uphill climbs the most it would do was maybe 45.
You forgot to mention your wheels...... Very Nice !!!

Jimbo

[BrownBear]

Very nice!

My brother's aim is similar, but the approach different. He has an Astro van sitting on top of an early 4WD conversion with only 60K miles on it. He's gone end to end with similar mods.

I particularly like his name for it: It's his MMC, or Mobile Man Cave.

[briansII]

Very nice. Have Fish = Will Travel + Bring Portable Sun.

briansII

[dray]

Sporty ride

[duckdog]

Very cool. Good job.

[rkfiske]

Man that is a small fortune up top there! I'm still waiting to save up for some new rubber on my ride!

[katsfood]

Man that is a small fortune up top there! I'm still waiting to save up for some new rubber on my ride!

Ryan...you don't even know...I already was questioning the money I knew I was spending...but then the install for the lights got more complex...and I added a light in the back last minute...and yes small fortune definitely...new rubber and skid plates and small fridge are next then this thing is done...for as long as I can hold out. Another forester owner is trying to talk me into a small lift and new springs but I am holding out

[John Harper]

You'll definitely survive the Zombie Apocalypse with that rig. Very nice job, Daniel, very nice.

John

[rvrfish]

Really nice upgrades. I have a Forester also kinda dreaming of something similar for mine.
thanks for sharing!
Matt

[fishabuoy]

WHAT a rig!!

sweet!

Bobby V

[Fishfreak911]

Another forester owner is trying to talk me into a small lift and new springs but I am holding out

Sooooo, when exactly will we get to see the new lift? I mean, it only makes sense to get the lift before the skid plates right?

[John Harper]

Another forester owner is trying to talk me into a small lift and new springs but I am holding out

Sooooo, when exactly will we get to see the new lift? I mean, it only makes sense to get the lift before the skid plates right?

Don't forget the new Bilstein (or Ohlin?) struts to go with those new springs and skid plates. I like KYB shocks on my vehicles. Good value and good performance.

John

[k9mark]

When do you plan on running the Baja 1000?